Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

[Bill_Weiser]

Over the lst week or more, I do not see the Taylorcraft make on the Single Engine or Sport aircraft catagories. Usually, there are 5-10 listings!
Has anyone else noticed?
Bill, N43092

[cropduster]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Yes, I also wondered were the taylorcrafts went?

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Maybe we are only selling them to each other? Wish it were true, but doubt that is what is happening.
Hank

[VictorBravo]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Barnstormers.com and eBay, as well as several lesser internet sites, have more or less obsoleted Trade-a-Plane. I'm truly sorry to see it go, but they didn't do the internet thing as fast, as well, as cheaply, or as attractively as Barnstormers did.

TAP charges their regular fee which puts your ad in the yellow paper and also gives you an online listing... that's pretty good. But it was $15 or $25 or whatever. THEN they charge the rest of us a membership or access fee to browse the ads and look for an airplane. That is unwelcome.

Barnstormers offered small free ads, or they ask for $5 to put in a bigger ad, or $10 for photos, etc. It's less that TAP.

Barnstormers does not charge anything to view the ads, so you have many more people looking at Barnstormers than TAP online.

So the dollar value favors Barnstormers and the exposure favors Barnstormers.

In the time it would take for you to pay TAP for an ad, send it in, then wait a week for the ad to come out... the airplane would have been listed on Barnstormers and sold.

So the time and efficiency favors Barnstormers.

Not a difficult decision... like I said I'm sorry to see TAP go but like General Motors and lots of other companies they had the market cornered and lost it because of their own decisions.

[dedrekon]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

I don't believe TAP charges to view their ads anymore and it is better organized than Barnstormers, whose layout and usability drives me a little nuts. I have a subscription to TAP and love to look through the printed paper......it's like the Sears catalog was when I was a kid, I vould look through the toys and dream for weeks. Of course later it was the "Ladies Foundation Garments" that I dreamed about.

I honestly don't think anybody has it down quite right yet.....the web based airplane pages I mean. Barnstormers has a funky home-made feel to it, but I have a feeling there's a real opportunity for a web sophisticated pioneer in this arena.

VA

[astjp2]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

There are probably none forsale so no listings...Tim

[NC36061]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Tim is right....unlike Barnstormers, TAP does not display a category if there isn't anything presently listed in that category. I look at both routinely. Check out globalplanesearch.com....it searches most if not all internet sales listings venues apart from TAP and Barnstormers.

Dave

[NY86]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

TAP still gets my vote, at least until there's an internet browser in every bathroom stall...

[3Dreaming]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

It cost nothing to look at most adds in Trade a Plane online. When placing an add it comes up the same day online. Also unlike Barnstormers when you place an add you don't get placed on the world wide spammers list. I went from normal email to over 100 pieces of spam daily with my first and last Barnstormers add. I have also had better luck selling with Trade a Plane. Tom

[Len Petterson]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Mine is for sale.
1800 hr TT A 65 680 +- on the engine fabric Left wing 99 right wing and rear fuselage 2001 annual Oct 08.
21000.00 Canadian. OBO
Len Petterson
905 562 3197

[lfries]

Re: Trade-a-Plane: Where's the Taylorcrafts

Last I knew if you were a subscriber to TAP you got current listings but if you were not a suscriber the listings were two weeks old. I guess this was to give subscribers the first shot at listings.